Salome (1895 Sylvestre, Pierné, Fuller), ballet
Salome (1895) is a ballet by Loie Fuller (chor.).
Abstract
In 1895, one year before the first performance of Oscar Wilde's play and ten years before Richard Strauss's opera, Loie Fuller could still ignore Salome's rising image of the femme fatale. Following the traditional "biblical" view, she presented her as "an innocent child who dances before Herod at the instigation of her mother. Salome does not ask for the head of John the Baptist and when it is delivered to her she falls to the ground in fright". By contrast, for the 1907 version, Fuller would use a completely different Salome image, not a biblical image, but a femme fatale, and focused more on the technical and electrical aspects of the dance spectacle.
Original cast
Editions, performances
Premiered in Paris, France